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Some of the greatest stories buried in the folds of history...until now. A podcast that uncovers the lifetimes and achievements of prolific warlords from ancient and medieval times. Going beyond the mainstream historical figures that everyone is familiar with, providing a thorough account of lesser known warriors and leaders that were titans during their respective ages. If you would like to support my work directly, you can kindly do so here: www.patreon.com/warlordsofhistory
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Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Despite breathing life in the bid to restore Shah Tahmasp II to the throne in Persia, Nader is soon caught up in the petty intrigues of his unstable King. Resulting in Nader launching a military coup to firmly take control of the Safavid army. Modernizing and reshaping it into a ferociously effective force. Then embarking on campaign in 1729, displaying sheer strategic and tactical military brilliance to win a series of astonishing victories to dislodge the Afghan Hotaks from their occupation of Iran. Returning Tahmasp to his rightful place, but in service to Nader, the Shah in all but name.
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the account of Naders battles againsr Abdalis is wrong, Alamara Naderi, mentions two battles before the sandstorm, and Jahangosha Naderi mengions two, the details are different, but ha says that it was just after sandstorm that Zulfaqar Khan joined his forces with Allahyar, and at this time Allahyar was just doing peace talks, as a ruse to buy time for Zulfaqar to join him, Zulfaqar and Allahyar planned an ambush, Allahyar had to make a frontal assault and Zulfaqar had to wait jn ambush,...
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
among the English books written about Nader, except for Lawrence Lockhart book, the others are all kncorrect including Michael Axworthys book, Sword of Persia
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Gilzayis and Abdalis were sworn enemies but they would ally together when faced with Shii Kizilbashs, and adding Abdaliz to his ranks and exiling them to Khorasan was in ghe second siege of Herat jn 1730-1 campaign
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
and the account of Abdalis being added to Naders force at the first siege of Herat is not true, because at this time Nader couldn’t bring Abdalis to heel, Nader hastily concluded a peace treaty with Abdalis forcinv them to pag12000tomans as Naalbaha (the price of horseshoe, an idiom in Persian for war indemnity) and the chieftains had to kiss the shoes of Shah Tahmasb( as every vassal would do) but Abdalis were in correspondence with Ashraf, asking him for help(despite the fact that..
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
actually, Naders force was mostly cavalries, but they could be dismounted and serve as musketeers, we see them later in the battles in Baluchestan(against Mukrani Baluchs, in the campaign of PirMuhammad Khan Marvi) that they would attack ghe enemy on horse and when they were weaker than the enemy, they would find a hill, take a defensive position after dismounting, use their mounts as a meatshield (occaisionally) and then shooting thejr muskets, and resist untill thr arrival of help,....
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Topal, their lines lost anh sign of disciplins, Naders cavalry followed them and didnt let them to find out that Naders forces were just on e fifth or sixth of their forcr, and the rest is history...
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
and then just wiyh eight thousand cavalry and two thousand Tofangchis (all of which from laluy tribe (Khorasani Arabs)) headed toward Akdarband pass, (he had received the news of Topals advanced guard stationing there) in this battle his best troops where Marvi, Kurd, and Afghan shock cavalry along side Arab Tofangchis the veterans of numerous skirmishes in thd central deserts of Iran under Malek Mahmud, they crushed thd advanced guard, and the retreating forces when they reached thd main..
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
jn ghd battle of Akdarband(mostly known as Kirkuk) against Topal, although he had thirty thousand troops with him, he preferred to take just 10 thousand of his troops sith him, because he dismounted 10 thousand of his cavalry...
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Murad tepe(Yeghevard, near Yerevan, modern day capital of Armenia) against the Ottomans. at thd battle of Samera against Topal Osman Pasha, it was Jazayerchis who remained jn the field, and were massacared by the Ottomans. Nader always moved all of his troops on horse back (mostly just before the battle of Mdhmandust) even Tofangchis and Jazayerchis had their horses for example in the battlr of Samera he carried all of his troops on horseback, some of them even having spare mounts. and..
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
actually Jazayerchi werent ghe best infantry in Naders army, Tofangchi was far better, and Nader used them more frequently, Jazayerchis it seems to had been recruited from villagers of Khorasan alongside some of Naders tribesmen, but later Nader would require the cities to provide Nader with teenager boys to be trained to be used as Jazayerchis, Nader used them to attack Artillary, he used them to the best effect in the battle of Murche-khort, against Gilzayis, and in the first battle...
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
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